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• Health officials warned January 27 that an
individual diagnosed with measles may have exposed as many as 195 children to
the disease at the Phoenix Children’s East Valley Center between January 20 and
21. – Arizona Republic

• Police are searching for a man who planted
an explosive device inside a Marshall’s store in Visalia, California, January
27 and waited for the device to detonate before he fled the scene with stolen
merchandise. – Visalia Times-Delta

30. January 28,
Visalia Times-Delta – (California) Explosive device planted in Visalia Marshall's. Police
are searching for a man who planted an explosive device inside a Marshall’s
store in Visalia January 27 and waited for the device to detonate before he
used an emergency exit to flee the scene with stolen merchandise. Authorities
are working to identify the explosive substance but believe the suspect may
have placed dry ice in a plastic soda bottle and sealed the lid causing the
bottle to expand and explode. Source: http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/news/local/2015/01/28/explosive-device-planted-visalia-marshalls/22465081/

• Police are investigating after gunshots
shattered windows and caused thousands of dollars in damage at the Great
American Tower at Queen City Square in Cincinnati, Ohio, over four separate
occasions between January 19 and 26. – WXIX 19 Newport

32. January
27, WXIX 19 Newport – (Ohio) Police search for gunman shooting up
Cincinnati's tallest skyscraper. Police are investigating after gunshots
shattered windows and caused thousands of dollars in damage at Great American
Tower at Queen City Square in Cincinnati over four separate occasions between
January 19 and January 26, all of which have occurred after business hours.
Police temporarily closed the Lytle Tunnel on northbound Interstate 71 January
26 and 27 and are working to determine if the shootings are coming from an area
of the highway that routes along downtown Cincinnati and Fort Washington Way.
Source: http://www.fox10tv.com/story/27947814/lytle-tunnel-shut-down-2nd-night-in-row-after-gunshots-fired

• Three men crashed a vehicle into the Wells
Fargo History Museum in downtown San Francisco January 27 with one suspect
holding a guard at gunpoint while the others collected about $10,000 worth of
gold nuggets before fleeing the scene. – Los Angeles Times

33. January
27, Los Angeles Times – (California) Masked men crash SUV into
S.F. museum, steal 10 ounces of gold. Three masked men crashed a stolen
vehicle into the Wells Fargo History Museum in downtown San Francisco January
27 with one suspect holding a guard at gunpoint while the others collected
about $10,000 worth of historic gold nuggets before fleeing the scene in a
second vehicle driven by an accomplice. Wells Fargo officials reported that the
museum would reopen at a later date while police are investigating if the
incident is related to similar smash-and-grab thefts involving vehicles in the
area since May 2014. Source: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-francisco-gold-nugget-heist-20150127-story.html

Financial Services Sector

5. January
27, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel – (Wisconsin) Watertown insurance
agent Loren Holzhueter ran $10 million Ponzi scheme, feds allege. A
Watertown insurance agent and one of his companies were charged with five
counts of securities fraud in federal court in Madison by the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission for running a $10 million Ponzi scheme and failing to
provide correct information to at least 122 investors on how their money was
being used. Source: http://www.jsonline.com/business/holzhueter-ran-10-million-ponzi-scheme-feds-allege-b99434251z1-290003131.html

For another story, see item 31 below from
the Commercial Facilities Sector

31. January
28, WBIW 1340 AM Bedford – (Indiana) French Lick Resorts report credit
card breach. French Lick Resort officials warned some visitors that their
personal and financial information may have been compromised after malware was
introduced into the company’s payment system. The malware has since been
removed and officials warned that only those visitors who used a payment card
at the resort between April 23, 2014 and January 21, 2015 could be at risk.
Source: http://www.wbiw.com/local/archive/2015/01/french-lick-resorts-reports-credit-card-breach.php

26. January
28, Securityweek – (International) Flash Player update patches two critical
vulnerabilities. Adobe released an update in Flash Player to version
16.0.0.296 to address a zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2015-0311, the second of
two previously unreported critical flaws that have been patched in the last
week, that allows attackers to install malware by visiting compromised websites
or malicious ads in their browsers. Source: http://www.securityweek.com/flash-player-update-patches-two-critical-vulnerabilities

27. January
28, Securityweek – (International) Serious vulnerability in Blackphone exposed
messages, location. A security flaw in Silent Text, an instant messaging
app available on the privacy-focused Blackphone, could be exploited by a remote
attacker to execute arbitrary code and enable the complete control of a
targeted device. The vulnerability has been closed by Blackphone and its
developer Silent Circle. Source: http://www.securityweek.com/serious-vulnerability-blackphone-exposed-messages-location

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U.S. Army Retired Chief Warrant Officer with more than 40 years in information technology and 35 years in information security. Became a Certified Information Systems Security Professional in 1995 and have taught computer security in Asia, Canada and the United States. Wrote a computer security column for 5 years in the 1980s titled "for the Sake Of Security", penname R. E. (Bob) Johnston, which was published in Computer Decisions.
Motto: "When entrusted to process, you are obligated to safeguard"